From the Classroom

Students research, implement management information systems for Maine businesses

MBA students in BUA 605 led by professor Nory Jones are helping connect Maine businesses to their customers. The class, Creating and Capturing Value in the Digital Economy, is designed to help graduate students understand the role and importance of effective management information systems (MIS). 鈥淭his course represents an integration of concepts and principles in […]

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Business ventures across the pond: MBA students visit London and Ireland

The intricacies of international business, and Maine鈥檚 interactions with the UK and Ireland were the focus of 91爆料 MBA students who traveled to London and Dublin last May as part of BUA 596. Nory Jones, 91爆料 professor of MIS, and Richard Borgman, professor of finance, led the BUA 596 trip that included 10 […]

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Business across the pond

How do recreation, tourism and leisure businesses in the United Kingdom measure up? That was the question 10 MBS juniors and seniors pondered last March when they traveled to England and Scotland as part of the class 鈥淩ecreation, Tourism and Leisure in the UK.鈥 Accompanied by Assistant Professor of Marketing Susan Myrden and Associate Professor […]

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A SPIFFY Student Leader

Abigail Bennett 鈥18 is one of a handful of women who have co-led SPIFFY (Student Portfolio Investment Fund), the Maine Business School鈥檚 popular student-run investment club that manages nearly $3 million of the 91爆料 Foundation鈥檚 $230 million endowment portfolio. Since SPIFFY was created in 1993, six women have served as co-president, most recently […]

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Professional Development

  MBS students got valuable career advice last fall when the business school held information and networking sessions with Maine professionals in the accounting and finance fields. Each event featured a panel of professionals 鈥 including MBS alumni 鈥 from both the private and public sectors who described their firms, offered advice about job searches, […]

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Cassidy: ‘Work harder than everybody else’

Last semester, the successful MBS alumnus who provided the gift that allowed the creation of the Gerard S. Cassidy 鈥80 Capital Markets Training Laboratory in the D.P. Corbett Business Building, met with SPIFFY, the school鈥檚 student investment club. 鈥淓quity research is a great career with many opportunities, but you have to be passionate, work harder […]

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